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Immoderate Muslims M.A. Niazi analyzes the "ferment is in the Muslim world".
Muslims Must Develop an Intolerance for Intolerance "When bigots speak up, moderate and responsible voices in the American Muslim community must immediately condemn them. Let them know that those who espouse intolerance will never be our heroes," writes M. A. Muqtedar Khan.
Bin Laden's violence is a heresy against Islam "Mainstream theologians have come out unanimously against the terrorists. What we must now ask them is to campaign more strongly against the aberrant doctrines that underpin them", writes British Muslim convert scholar, Abdal-Hakim Murad.
'If you hate the west, emigrate to a Muslim country' American convert, Hamza Yusuf, one of the West's most important Islamic scholars, tackles head on those extremist immigrant Muslims who "rant and rave" against the countries they live in. The Guardian (London), October 8, 2001
Recapturing Islam from the Terrorists "Muslims cannot deny forever that doctrinal extremism can lead to political extremism. They must realise that it is traditional Islam, the only possible alternative to their position, which owns rich resources for the respectful acknowledgement of difference within itself, and with unbelievers." by British convert to Islam, Abdal-Hakim Murad, 14 September 2001
THE POVERTY OF FANATICISM "The Islamic movement risks ceasing to form an authentic summons to cultural and spiritual renewal, and existing as little more than a splintered array of maniacal factions. The prospect of such an appalling and humiliating end to the story of a religion which once surpassed all others in its capacity for tolerating debate and dissent is now a real possibility." By British convert to Islam, Abdal-Hakim Murad.
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